The Trappings Of LARP
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Share your wisdom with all! Supply us with How To Guides for making maille, masks, leather kit, cloaks, anything else!
If you have images which would help (patterns etc) please email them to Jen who will put them online and link to them in your guide. Also remember to include where people can get the equipment and materials.
LarpArchery (including safety notes)
Safety Guides
- Archery Safety∞ guide from lrpstore - everyone who uses a bow or crossbow should read this.
How To Guides
Props
- Making Props (general info, and specific items including written props and large scale props)
Costume
Armour
Making your own I.C. Booze
Mildew, prevention and treatment: this page∞ says that temperatures above 115ｰF kill most species of mildew. That's 46ｰC, which is safely below the temperature that will damage leather, especially if it's wet and chrome-tanned: see BoilingLeather.
Link to a guide on making LARP weapons on the Cuckoo's Nest main site: Skian Mhor Weapon Making Guide∞
Suppliers of materials
- Le Prevo Leather∞: Leathers, thongs, buckles and fittings, tools etc.
- http://www.neumannleathers.com/∞ Many kinds of leather, but web site lacks details and prices.
- http://www.ukhide.co.uk/∞ Leather (sold for car upholstery, whole hides only)
- Traditional Materials∞ Leathers, dyes, metals, wood, horn, bone, linen thread, jute canvas, beeswax, tools... (Connected to Tod's Stuff∞.)
- Also see the Costume/Props section for liquid latex.
Suppliers of both materials and ready-made items
- LARP Store∞
- Skian Mhor∞ Their weapons have a good reputation in the Nest. Heavier (and more durable?) than Eldritch. Also weapons-making supplies.
- The Ring Lord ∞ (Canadian) chain mail supplies: rings, wire, scales, patterns, tools and finished mail by the square foot (lightweight plasma welded, choice of metal, even finer than from Rampant Mouse∞). Also vests of that stuff, similar price to Rampant Mouse.
- "Twister Wring-Peace Chain Maile Emporium"∞
- Loc Zero∞ - weapons, weapon-making stuff etc. (The cheapest place I've found for weapon-making foam; anyone seen better?) LocZero is allegedly closing down (March 2006).
- The Warriors Gateway∞
- Armchair Armoury∞ (direct link to scale armour).
- Larp.co.uk∞ Not much here yet, but could be worth watching. Weapons appear to be made by Skian Mhor, and slightly cheaper than the list prices on the Skian Mhor site.
Ready-made things only
Weapons & Armour (and maybe costume etc.)
- http://www.primalforge.co.uk∞ General range of LARP kit. Good for plate armour.
- http://armstreet.com∞ Gorgeous plate armour made to measure, plain or stainless steel. Also costume and re-enactmentish props, and nylon pavilions. Based in Ukraine.
- http://www.evenlodestudio.com∞ Make high quality heavy leather armour, army boots with extra straps and fold-over tops, scabbards, holsters etc. and they retail pistols and (Mike Light?) rapiers. Attend Maelstrom.
- http://www.makai-larp.co.uk/∞ makes latex weapons, sells Maelstrom-suitable cap-firing gun phys-reps.
- http://www.tinb.co.uk∞ chain and leather armour, and costume
- http://www.characterkit.co.uk/∞ general reseller
- http://www.havingalarp.com∞ Well-established traders at the big events, but new to the web (weapons not on web yet). 07930 265357
- Wandering Soldier∞ make weapons and shields, and sell at big events and as purrloon on eBay. Custom work accepted. Now trades from the above website aswell.
- Eldritch∞ have supplied some very nice lightweight swords to Nest members.
- Rogues Armoury∞ - high quality custom leather armour
- Rampant Mouse∞ (in America) Lightweight fine welded stainless steel chain mail: 4lb vest $225, 4.5lb shirt $285, 5.5lb hauberk $365. Rings 0.21" (5.3mm) outside diameter, wire 0.025" (0.64mm).
A Nest member has one of their hauberks (full sleeves, no hood) and it is very nice. Note there was 60-70 import tax, and over a month to deliver. (alas, the link no longer works)
- Ringmesh∞ Some nice fine mail, rather like the rampant mouse stuff.
- Adventurer's Mart∞ All sorts of stuff; generally cheaper than lrpstore. Can't spell. Discounts for clubs, students and big orders. Weapons by Medlock, who have made some that Jude says are nice.
- Tallows∞ Graham Tallows makes and sells weaponry and shields. Expensive, but from the web pictures they seem very detailed and lovely. The pole-arms are 7' long. Also moulded throwing-knives at just ﾃδεつづδづつ｣4.50 each. (The shopping-cart web ordering system seems to be broken, but he's still doing business by telephone/post as of Dec 2005.) EDIT by Paul: as a sprog has now been produced I got the impression from the last few events he is pretty much running down his larp weapon business.
- Artisan Armours∞ mostly leather armour
- Simon Medlock makes weapons; some Nest members have bought from him and are very happy with them. No website. Anyone know how to find him? There are rumours he sells through http://www.larpstore.co.uk/∞ but it's hard to tell what's his. Usually has a stall at events and is also based in Lanark so may be open to visits. The larp weapons section in monster boutique∞ are apparently Medlock from the item descriptions.
- Nick Kapalo∞ makes and sells weapons and shields. Based in or near Manchester. Also sells on ebay with user ID nickkapalo∞; better pictures there than on his site.
- Handsmade and Battledamage∞ A lot of the Nest-owned weapons came from them. Concerns over safety & durability.
- Dark Blade∞ Mostly leather. Armour (inc. steel helms), pouches, scabbards, accessories, costume, cap-pistols.
- Bambus Design∞ Cheap short bamboo bows: ﾃδεつづδづつ｣11 32"(80cm) 10-20lb; ﾃδεつづδづつ｣16 40"(1m) 15-27lb@60cm(24"), ﾃδεつづδづつ｣22.50 48"(1.20m) 20-30lb@70cm. Affordable bamboo-and-ash bows: ﾃδεつづδづつ｣54.70 60"(1.50m), 25-30lb@33"(85cm). Short arrows for short bows. German, but in English. ﾃδεつづδづつ｣12.50 flat rate shipping. Also ebay: userid simply-bamboo, store Bambus-Design-Shop∞. Check for 5% discount vouchers there. (April 2006.)
- Medieval Weapon Art∞ - suppliers of clothing, jewellry, props etc No weapons and based in USA.
- By The Sword∞: weapons and armour (direct link to leather armour)
- http://www.schmitthenner.com/∞ some v nice armour, see especially the 'For the Ladies' section.
- Roman Legion Quartermaster∞ (rlqm.com) make fastidiously accurate reproductions of Roman armour etc. (in the USA) (but not up to the standards of Legio XX∞'s scrutineers)
- http://veeleather.co.uk/∞ Leather armour. Good kit, good prices. Inventive. Also doug_n_janye on eBay (veeleather shop).
- The Cutting Edge∞ do leather armour, weapons, shields, costume and props. sell on ebay as well under cartivel1 ... yes that is the person with the gorgeous leather basques.
Costume & Props (no weapons/armour)
Ebay Only Sellers
Camping Equipment
(It's LARP related, honest :) )
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